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No real shock here as it's typical of black leaders to denounce a black republican.
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The head of North Carolina's chapter of the NAACP called Sen. Tim Scott a "ventriloquist dummy" for “the extreme right wing” in South Carolina, drawing a rebuke from the nation's only black Republican senator.
Speaking on the eve of Martin Luther King Day, the Rev. William Barber II, in a speech made at the Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C., said Scott, R-S.C., is a pawn of “the extreme right wing down here (in South Carolina)” which “finds a black guy to be senator and claims he’s the first black senator since Reconstruction and then he goes to Washington D.C. and articulates the agenda of the Tea Party,” The State newspaper reported.
No real shock here as it's typical of black leaders to denounce a black republican.
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The head of North Carolina's chapter of the NAACP called Sen. Tim Scott a "ventriloquist dummy" for “the extreme right wing” in South Carolina, drawing a rebuke from the nation's only black Republican senator.
Speaking on the eve of Martin Luther King Day, the Rev. William Barber II, in a speech made at the Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, S.C., said Scott, R-S.C., is a pawn of “the extreme right wing down here (in South Carolina)” which “finds a black guy to be senator and claims he’s the first black senator since Reconstruction and then he goes to Washington D.C. and articulates the agenda of the Tea Party,” The State newspaper reported.
It was an incredibly racist statement by Barber. Implicit in his statement is that if you are of a particular skin tone, you must think and vote a certain way. He's saying that Scott could not possibly have simply come to be persuaded of his conservative views, like any other conservative. Why not? Because of Scott's skin color. Hence Scott is labeled as a ventriloquist's dummy. He couldn't have just arrived at his beliefs on his own; there has to be some other explanation...because of Scott's skin color. What is that if not fundamentally racist?
And btw to believe that Barber is right, you've gotta believe that you have the magical power to read Scott's mind, to know his thought process and motives. And if you believe you have that....you're wrong.
Obama is the ultimate ventriloquists dummy so there's hypocrisy for you. In the words of Archie Bunker: " Well if that isn't the black calling the kettle pot."
It was an incredibly racist statement by Barber. Implicit in his statement is that if you are of a particular skin tone, you must think and vote a certain way. He's saying that Scott could not possibly have simply come to be persuaded of his conservative views, like any other conservative. Why not? Because of Scott's skin color. Hence Scott is labeled as a ventriloquist's dummy. He couldn't have just arrived at his beliefs on his own; there has to be some other explanation...because of Scott's skin color. What is that if not fundamentally racist?
So let me see if I am understanding you, you are saying the head of the NC NAACP is racist against Black people?
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